Holding on too tight can be harmful.
Depression and anxiety in children have been linked to not having enough freedom to roam.When I was a boy, I moved to a newly built housing project. The nearby elementary school was too small to accommodate the slew of new kids, but a few miles away, too far to walk to, stood the underutilized PS 119. So, a dozen or so of us 5th graders took public transportation to the school in Glendale—not a little yellow bus but a lumbering public bus on Myrtle Avenue.
Two years later, I commuted an hour each way taking two subway lines to a high school in Manhattan. I left soon after dawn and, because I was on a varsity team, often returned in the dark. If my mother, who was a worrier by nature, had qualms about my unsupervised travel, she never expressed it. My father would have thought it absurd that I couldn’t manage this on my own. As far as I knew, the parents of all my school acquaintances thought the same.
Helicopter parents emerged in a later generation, fearful of letting their children ride public conveyances alone, afraid of letting them play outdoors without a hovering adult presence, instilling messages about stranger-danger and the menace of unwashed hands.
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